Industrial Estate, Cambridge

Question 1

What type of measurement did you undertake for Cambridge Industrial property?

Answer 1

GIA basis - Code of Measuring Practice

Question 2

What type of instrumentation did you use to collect data for the Cambridge Property?

Answer 2

Distometer

Question 3

How did you undertake the measurement?

Answer 3

• Walk around the site - improved understanding of building shape.
• Utilise the existing floor plans
• Used distometer to measure from the inside of one exterior wall to opposite exterior wall. Where internal walls interrupted a clear measurement, measure to the wall and then note the thickness of the wall and continue measurement on the other side.
• Calculation - Length x Width = Size (Sqm).

Question 4

What is ancillary office space?

Answer 4

Office space located within a building which primary use is for industrial use.

Question 5

Why did you verify against floor plans and marketing details?

Answer 5

To assess margin of error (2%).

These areas were previously assumed during a measured survey.

Question 6

What was excluded in the GIA measurement?

Answer 6

Open balconies

Open fire escapes

Parking areas

Covered ways

Question 7

What did you include in the GIA measurement?

Answer 7

Walls and Partitions

Toilets, showers, changing rooms

Columns

Plant rooms

Question 8

How do you calibrate a laser measurer?

Answer 8

My company send distometers off to to calibrate the lasers (LEICA)

Question 9

How did you ensure your measurement was as accurate as possible?

Answer 9

taking several check measurements

making sure the laser or tape is measuring from the correct surfaces

checking measurements with scaled plans or reliable mapping software

Question 10

Tell me about a strength and weakness of a measuring technique you have used.

Answer 10

Distometer

Weaknesses - Do not work well in sunlight

Strengths - Tent to be accurate to 1.5mm up to 200 mm.